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Open For All: the benefits of open data in a digital age Mark Thorley Natural Environment Research Council [email protected] @MarkRThorley

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Open For All:the benefits of open data in a digital age

Mark ThorleyNatural Environment Research Council

[email protected]@MarkRThorley

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My perspective

• I know:– A fair amount about open

access and research data management;

– A bit about scholarly publishing;

– And something about the challenges of getting research data out there and used.

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Research Councils UK

£3B

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www.CODATA.org

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CODATA Strategy:Exploiting the Data Revolution

Exploiting the data revolution is the major priority for international science.

CODATA strategy lays out three priorities and a plan that shows we can deliver for ICSU on these priorities.

Promote intelligently open data data policies: supporting implementation of data

principles and practiceAdapt to the transformation in research data science: addressing the frontier issues of data

sciencePromote data skills, data scientists, data managers data education: capacity building (particularly in

LMICs)

New CODATA PresidentGeoffrey Boulton, FRSChair of Science as an

OpenEnterprise Report

New CODATA Executive Committee elected at GA in New Delhi, Nov

2014

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Why ‘open’ ?

• Public good agenda.• Research transparency and integrity.• Expectations of a digital age.• Data intensive science.• Support for innovation and growth:

– remove barriers to access;– get the stuff out there and get it used.

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The challenges of research in a digital age

Life was so much simpler in the ‘good old days’

Laurentius de Voltolina - Liber ethicorum des Henricus de AlemanniaSee: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurentius_de_Voltolina_001.jpg

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Then along came the future .…

• Schumpeterian creative destruction– The disruptive process of transformation that

accompanies innovation.• Francis Bacon (1620): comparing the invention of

printing to those of firearms and the nautical compass– These three have changed the whole face and state of the world;

first in literature, second in warfare, third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable changes, in so much that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs than these mechanical discoveries

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The digital & networked world is a real game changer

• Expectations and opportunities have changed.• A world where the expectation is ‘I want it now

and I want it for free’.• A world where anybody can ‘publish’ anything on

the web.• A world where people expect to develop services

based on other people’s material.• A world where experts have to earn trust.

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Open is the new normal

• Change in expectation of availability – open will become the new normality.

• Those who say open is not an issue for them – risk becoming marginalised, overlooked and ignored.

• Responsibility of all those involved in the research process to ensure that definitive, quality assured research results and data are available to all who need them when they need them.

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Re-use by business & innovators

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Flood risk(www.checkmyfloodrisk.co.uk)

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Radon in the cellar (www.ukradon.org)

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Rembrandts in the attic

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Data innovation environments

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Business led exploitation

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What is business looking for?

• Nationally consistent data sets from which services can be developed:– Climate, weather, air-quality, soils, land-cover.

• Tend to be data from survey or monitoring activities, not individual research data sets.

• Need to understand IP restrictions and updates.• Exploitation value is in data plus expertise:

– Role for knowledge broker / intermediary.

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The future

• Open data management becomes part of the fabric of research practice.

• Those who fund research will need to fund activity and infrastructure - the ‘well-found-lab’.

• Require intelligent openness and intelligent management – can’t manage everything for ever.

• Specific support for business and innovation through ‘data hubs’.

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THANK YOU